The Viking in the Wilderness - reviews and news

  Brighton-based musician and self-confessed workaholic Matt Finucane is set to release his latest outing “To The Outer World” on April 23 rd 2021. The video from the album’s first single “A Friend From Far Away” can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXGdEdHb2-k Happy to be a “troubadour of disharmony, to confront, provoke, and captivate” (Ring Master Reviews). He takes his influences from Lou Reed, post-punk and Krautrock, and mashes them up into something intense, energetic and uniquely his own. His is a mission to cut through the static with intelligent, gripping, spooky music. For several years now, he’s been DIY-releasing albums at a steady rate, getting airplay on BBC Introducing: South (including a live session with an early version of the band), Kerrang Radio and Resonance FM, among others – plus many rave reviews, many of them stressing that he was more than a cult item and should be heard by a wider audience. Deciding he agreed with this, Matt ...

Adam Leader, frontman for UK Metal Quintet In Search Of Sun, can now add feature film director to his resume as his directorial debut feature film “Hosts”. “Hosts” is co-directed by Richard Oakes, with whom Leader runs Dark Fable Media. Their past clients include Airbourne, Tesseract (who they created the feature length cinematic experience “Portals” for) and Ihsahn, among others. Hosts is shocking audiences all over the world, winning the ‘Best Death Award’ from Total Film at FrightFest UK and having its world Premiere at Spain’s Sitges International Film Festival. Entering the top 20 in the overall iTunes Movie Charts and the top 3 in the Horror Charts, “Hosts” is garnering momentum rapidly as it climbs higher in the ranks each day. It’s been a hit with film critics too, with the likes of The New York Times calling it “Brutal & Blood-Soaked”. Starburst Magazine have called it “Gruesome, seat-edge and unpredictable”, while the BFI have said “The Hendersons’s Yuletide dinne...

 (42:06; Metal Blast Records) Norwegian band BLACK SUN BROTHERHOOD is a unit that has been cooking for a few years, with sources stating that the initial incarnation of the band launched back in 2013. Following an initial EP in 2019 they launched their debut album "God & Beast" in the fall season of 2020 through German label Metal Blast Records. My main initial associations when listening through this album properly is that this is a band that either know their Celtic Frost quite a bit, or that they are familiar with quite a few bands that explore the legacy of that band. The lead vocals are gruff, frayed spoken to shouted vocals in a manner perhaps more related to than directly similar to Tom Fischer, but most certainly with many similar features. There are some guitar details used throughout this album that I also associate more with Fischer than anyone else, and then going back to the earliest days of Celtic Frost at that. That being said, good old Venom were perhaps t...

One of Luxembourg’s hardest working outfits, ROME, is back with a surprising new album; “Parlez-Vous Hate?” Bursting with anthems; “Parlez-Vous Hate?” is a tongue-in-cheek, punk rock cry for freedom of expression! After last year’s phenomenal long player, “The Lone Furrow”, no one was expecting Reuter to hit so soon and so hard, but “Parlez-Vous Hate?” delivers on all fronts and is set for release through Trisol Music Group on January 29th 2021.   On why he opted for this direction and the core themes behind the record, Reuter said this:   "I must assume the sound of this record is mostly inspired by the anger and frustration of being locked in for about a year and watching your world crumble. It is not the most positive I ever felt, but at least in the studio, with your friends, for a little while there, you are master of your own destiny."   Track list:     Shangri-Fa     Parlez-Vous Hate?     Born In The E.U.   ...

During the 2020 lockdown, US guitarist Geoff Tyson took part in Joe Satriani’s YouTube special “Stripped X 3 - Express Yourself” which included Steve Vai, Phil Collen (Def Leppard), Sammy Hagar, Bumblefoot, Phil Campbell (Motörhead), Lari Basilio, Alyssa Day and Joshua De La Victoria. A former student of Satriani’s, Tyson had this to say on his inclusion: "I was humbled and flattered to be asked to participate in Joe's 'Stripped X Three' video project. During COVID, and throughout 2020, we have all found our lives turned around and beaten down. I admire Joe for always innovating, always moving forward, and I'm thrilled to contribute alongside such amazing guitar players." Geoff’s inclusion can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoMBfQYhnRw Geoff Tyson started his musical journey at the age of 3, when he started classical piano training. He played until his early teens until he heard Eddie Van Halen and he knew that guitar was his calling....

  American neo-folk artist Joy Shannon is set to release her latest album “The Cave” on her Triple Goddess imprint on December 21st 2020! With a haunting lyricism and stirring melodies that touch on a more ancient time, Joy Shannon creates mythology-inspired dark folk with Celtic harp, voice and cello. “The Cave” is her seventh studio album. This album was recorded at Lava Studios in Copenhagen with producer Christopher Juul, best known for his work with the rousing Nordic folk band Heilung. The cover art was designed by illustrator Adrian Baxter, known for his intricate artwork in the metal genre. Having previously released albums with her Celtic folk band “Joy Shannon and the Beauty Marks”, Shannon chose to create this album alone as Joy Shannon, in step with the theme of the solitary spiritual experience that inspired this conceptual album. “The Cave” was inspired by a revelatory spiritual experience in a cave on the island of Crete, one that bears evidence of ritu...